Robert Doyle v. Douglas Palmer, Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
FirstAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
1. Whether Congress may delegate, to the Judicial Branch, the power to enact federal-court bar admission requirements that Congress lacks the power to enact directly.
2. Whether a federal district court may, consistent with the First Amendment, force a bar applicant to associate with a member of the bar of that court and engage, with that member, in a significant amount of expressive conduct.
3. Whether a federal district court may, consistent with the First Amendment, force a bar applicant to waive his freedom of conscience.
Whether Congress may delegate power to the Judicial Branch to enact federal-court bar-admission requirements